5 use cases for automating your infrastructure with Ansible Automation Platform

Infrastructure automation is an area where systems administrators and  IT operations teams can see some of the biggest benefits from automation, including time savings, reducing tedious manual work, and improving the overall health of their systems. In this blog, I’ve identified the top 5 infrastructure automation use cases for Ansible Automation Platform that you can Read more about 5 use cases for automating your infrastructure with Ansible Automation Platform[…]

Fact-Gathering with Event-Driven Ansible for Microsoft Windows ITSM

The use of Event-Driven Ansible to enable fact gathering from events is considered a “Getting Started” type of use case, but it can be extremely powerful. This use case is simple and it is what we consider a “Read Only” type of action, meaning that we are not making any changes, but we are using Read more about Fact-Gathering with Event-Driven Ansible for Microsoft Windows ITSM[…]

Ansible can help with the Cisco IOS XE Software Web UI Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

CVE-2023-20198  Reference: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-iosxe-webui-privesc-j22SaA4z Overview Cisco recently published an advisory pertaining to an active exploitation of a previously unknown vulnerability in the web UI feature of Cisco IOS XE Software when exposed to the internet or to untrusted networks. This vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to create an account on an affected system with privilege Read more about Ansible can help with the Cisco IOS XE Software Web UI Privilege Escalation Vulnerability[…]

NEW!!! Getting started landing page for Ansible Automation Platform on Azure

This blog is co-authored by Tomas Znamenacek and Hicham (he-sham) Mourad   Introduction We’re so excited to introduce you to the newest addition to Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Microsoft Azure – The new landing page! Now with new deployments, a single web page that consolidates all you need to know about Ansible Automation Read more about NEW!!! Getting started landing page for Ansible Automation Platform on Azure[…]

Red Hat Insights Collection for Event-Driven Ansible

Event-Driven Ansible became generally available in Ansible Automation Platform 2.4. As part of the release, Red Hat Insights and Ansible teams collaborated to implement and certify a Red Hat Insights collection integrating Insights events as a source of events for Ansible Automation Platform. This provides a consistent way to receive and handle events triggered from Read more about Red Hat Insights Collection for Event-Driven Ansible[…]

Seeding Ansible Automation Platform Content At Installation Time

In a previous blog, I announced the tech preview of containerized Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. With that we introduced a new feature to enable you to pre-seed configuration and content at installation time. This blog will take you through how that works. At Red Hat, we are very lucky to have some super talented Read more about Seeding Ansible Automation Platform Content At Installation Time[…]

Importing Ansible Validated Content into Private Automation Hub

Introduction Ansible validated content is a set of collections containing pre-built YAML content (such as playbooks or roles) to address the most common automation use cases. You can use Ansible validated content out-of-the-box or as a learning opportunity to develop your automation skills. It’s a trusted starting point to bootstrap your automation: use it, customize Read more about Importing Ansible Validated Content into Private Automation Hub[…]

Now serving: Event-Driven Ansible with a dash of durability

In the realm of automation, the ability to respond to events in real-time is a game-changer. At Red Hat, we’ve been pioneering in this space with Event-Driven Ansible, which can consume messages from various sources like AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS), Azure Service Bus, and Kafka to trigger automated actions. Today, we’re excited to delve Read more about Now serving: Event-Driven Ansible with a dash of durability[…]

Announcing Containerized Ansible Automation Platform

Everything you know and love about Ansible Automation Platform in containerized form We’re excited to announce something that we’ve been working on for a while now, the technical preview of a containerized Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform solution. Currently, this will allow you to install and run containerized automation controller, Ansible automation hub, and the Read more about Announcing Containerized Ansible Automation Platform[…]

New Ansible Galaxy

For awhile, the Red Hat Ansible team behind the components Ansible automation hub and Ansible cloud automation hub at console.redhat.com have been on a special ops mission to enhance the galaxy_ng code base that serves the aforementioned components to also serve galaxy.ansible.com, with the intention of replacing galaxy.ansible.com with a fresh code base.   Galaxy, Read more about New Ansible Galaxy[…]